Terrorist Attacks Quotes - Page 6

• We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term.

  Dana Perino

  Country, President, Terrorist

  "Olbermann: Dana Perino 'Worst Person' After Insisting Ft. Hood Was 'Terrorist Attack'". www.newsbusters.org. December 1, 2009.

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• The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Men, Law, Police

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• Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered. But humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

  David Attenborough

  Weather, Long, Humanity

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

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• In fact, in Indiana we suspended the Syrian refugee program in the wake of the terrorist attack. We have no higher priority than the safety and security of the people of this country, and Donald Trump is right to articulate that view.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Views, People

  "The Republican Ticket" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2016.

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• So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have bookended both those years in a very unfortunate way. But at a bigger picture since, the impression in Pakistan is that things are actually improving on the terrorism front quite dramatically.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Years, Pakistan, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

  Mark McKinnon

  Suicide, Marine, Hostage Crisis

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• Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.

  Jim Gerlach

  Law, Community, September 11

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• I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

  Sally Quinn

  Pigs, Two, Ongoing

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack.

  Bob Etheridge

  Responsibility, Government, Terrorist

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• In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.

  Ricardo Sanchez

  Senior, Military, Men

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• I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

  Jim Ramstad

  Support, Als, Terrorist

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• Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.

  John Yoo

  Mean, Fighting, Important

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• But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.

  Benjamin Carson

  Daughter, Lying, Government

  "Early Start" with Christine Romans, John Berman, www.cnn.com. November 11, 2015.

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• We in US need active intelligence: people being on the streets, people being able to stop and ask questions of individuals that they suspect to put it together. Why wouldn't we be wanting to get some information that could actually prevent a terrorist attack, especially since we have so many individuals fighting that have passports coming back and spreading jihad.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Fighting, People, Together

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can and must do so in a way that also protects the constitutional rights of the American people and maintains our free society. We can do that without living in an Orwellian world where the government and private corporations know every telephone call that we make, every website we visit, everyplace we go.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Rights, Government

  "Sanders Welcomes Court Ruling on NSA". www.sanders.senate.gov. May 7, 2015.

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• The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.

  Dana Perino

  Government, Nsa, United States

  "Bush denies massive spying on U.S. citizens" by John O'Neil, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2006.

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• If you put Sen. Kerry in the White House, I think you are going to see that another terrorist attack happen ... and I don't want to see another Sept. 11.

  Bernard Kerik

  Thinking, White, House

  New York Daily News, April 22, 2004.

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• Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU. "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this," he declared on the 700 Club, because, he explained, the ACLU, abetted by the federal courts is responsible for "throwing God out of the public square (and) the public schools." This is a familiar charge and a false one. God is still present in the public schools, where students are free to pray, alone or in groups, so long as their prayers aren't officially sponsored and don't infringe on anyone's freedom not to pray.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Prayer, School, Squares

  "Our Very Own Taliban". prospect.org. December 19, 2001.

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• Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Profound, Madrid, Intense

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• The idea of a terrorist attack that assaults innocent human beings in a building, or a mall or a restaurant is bad enough--yet the terrorist mind that looks at a passenger plane and sees the fuel and the intensity of the blast, and sees the rocket engines that will carry it into the heart of destruction like a cruise missile, but who does not see the humanity of one single soul on that airplane is the chilling truth of what we're up against.

  Alan Keyes

  Heart, Airplane, Ideas

  Alan Keyes' Address to Black America's Political Action Committee, www.keyesarchives.com. September 25, 2001.

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• But I do think its unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.

  John Cornyn

  Thinking, White, America

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• The 9/11 terrorist attack was a faith-based initiative.

  Dan Barker

  Initiative, Terrorist, Faith Based

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• When the September 11th attacks happened, only about a year later, the crypto community was holding its breath because here was a time when we just had an absolutely horrific terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and if the NSA and the FBI were unhappy with anything, Congress was ready to pass any law they wanted. The PATRIOT Act got pushed through very, very quickly with bipartisan support and very, very little debate, yet it didn't include anything about encryption.

  Matt Blaze

  Years, Law, Nsa

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If the CIA is going to disrupt future terrorist attacks, it needs to recruit spies to infiltrate those groups in order to disrupt the terrorist attacks. Not to rely on what you and I are putting in chat messages on Google or Apple.

  John Kiriakou

  Order, Apples, Google

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Suicide, Memories, July

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